Tina Shackleford
Tina teaches Stage Management and Production in the School of Drama, and currently serves as Area Chair for Production Technology and Management.
As a professional stage manager, her credits include productions with theatres across the country, including La Jolla Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, City Theater, Resonance Works Pittsburgh, Seattle Group Theatre, Contemporary American Theatre Festival, Saint Michael’s Playhouse, The Clarence Brown Theatre, Zachary Scott Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Riverside Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Dallas Theater Center, and the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, as well as collaborations with Theatre de la Jeune Lune and the Latino comedy group Culture Clash. She was also Production Stage Manager at Iowa Summer Repertory and the Illinois Shakespeare Festival.
Tina’s writing has appeared in the journal Theatre Design & Technology, Stage Directions Magazine, and as a contributor to Off-Headset, a 2022 anthology of writing about Stage Management. Tina co-chaired a national committee to establish and formalize curricular standards for BFA programs in Stage Management across the country, which was subsequently adopted by NAST. Directing credits include new work at the Iowa Playwrights Festival and the David Mark Cohen New Works Festival. She has taught at the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and the University of California-San Diego and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association where she serves on the Pittsburgh Outreach Committee. For USITT, she is a founding member of the Institute’s EDI Initiative and Gateway Mentorship Program and has previously served as Management Commissioner, on the Board of Directors and for many years as part of the Stage Management Mentor Project as a mentor and as its head for four years, in addition to several other committees.